BakingBlueberry Muffins
Mixed until barely combined and baked hot to start, which is what throws up the high domed top. A smooth muffin batter is a failed muffin batter.
45 minServes 12Easy
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BakingVanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream
A reverse-creamed sponge, which coats the flour in butter before any liquid arrives. Less gluten, finer crumb, and a cake that stays tender for two days instead of one.
1 hrServes 12Easy
BakingBerliner Doughnuts
No hole, filled after frying, and marked by a pale stripe around the middle that tells you the lid was on. Germans judge a Berliner by that stripe before they taste it.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
BakingGlazed Ring Doughnuts
Yeast-raised and fried for barely a minute a side, then glazed while still hot so it soaks in and sets to a thin shell rather than sitting on top as icing.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
BakingCroissants
Two days, three folds, and one rule that governs all of it: butter and dough must stay the same softness. Everything that goes wrong with croissants goes wrong there.
15 hrServes 12Hard
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
BakingGarlic Bread with Parsley Butter
Raw garlic grated to a paste, not chopped, so it melts into the butter instead of catching and turning bitter in the oven.
25 minServes 6Easy
BakingOverripe Banana Bread
The blacker the bananas the better the loaf. Melted butter instead of creamed, one bowl, and no mixer to wash up afterwards.
1 hr 15 minServes 10Easy
BakingBrown Butter Olive Oil Cake
Two fats doing two jobs: browned butter for nuttiness, olive oil for a crumb that stays damp for days. It is better on day two than on day one.
1 hr 15 minServes 10Medium